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ITV 70: Around the Regions
Season 1 · Episode 50
How Norwich Became One of the World's Daytime TV Capitals
0.05mSeptember 20, 2025
At the dawn of the new millennium, shows including Trisha, Loose Women and The Wright Stuff meant that more hours of studio-based daytime TV were being made in Norwich than anywhere bar Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Beatles Visit the ABC Cinema in Carlisle 1963
- Episode 2Granada TV Launch
- Episode 3Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963
- Episode 4Goonhilly's First Transatlantic Broadcast
- Episode 5Anglia Television Launch in 1959
- Episode 6ITV's Birth in the Midlands
- Episode 7The Launch of Commercial Television in Wales
- Episode 8Yorkshire's Archive Treasure Trove
- Episode 9Viewers in the South of England Reminisce About ITV's Launch
- Episode 10The Belfast Shipyards in the Swinging '60s
- Episode 11Iconic ITV Studios Torn Down
- Episode 12Tyne Tees TV Launch in 1959
- Episode 13A Glimpse into LS Lowry's Life in the 1960s
- Episode 14Channel TV Launch in 1962
- Episode 151965 Jersey Plane Crash
- Episode 16The SS Great Britain Returns to Bristol
- Episode 17Expelled Ugandan Asians Arrive in Devon
- Episode 18Central’s Look Back at News in the East Midlands 65-74
- Episode 19Central’s Look Back at News in the West Midlands 65-74
- Episode 20How Anglia TV Grew Through the Swinging Sixties
- Episode 21New Prince of Wales Aired to Millions in Colour
- Episode 22Lady Mary Peters on a Golden Moment
- Episode 23The ITV Shows Shot in the South East
- Episode 24The ITV Shows Shot in the South
- Episode 25Technicolour Tales: How Anglia Made the Switch from Black and White
- Episode 26It Was Supposed to be the UK's Answer to Jaws
- Episode 27Greenham Common Peace Protesters
- Episode 28The Rise and Fall of the Delorean Car
- Episode 29The Birth of Tiswas
- Episode 30Miners' Strike at 40
- Episode 31When Ipswich Town Ruled Europe
- Episode 32Nelson Mandela's Make Poverty History Speech
- Episode 33Leave the Fighting to McGuigan
- Episode 34Life in the South in the 1950s
- Episode 35When Kids TV Ruled the Airwaves
- Episode 36A Shopper's Paradise
- Episode 37A TV Trailblazer in the Eighties
- Episode 38Central’s Look Back at News in the East Midlands 85-94
- Episode 39Michael Heseltine on his Liverpool Legacy
- Episode 40Central’s Look Back at News in the East Midlands 95-04
- Episode 41Birmingham Hosts the G8 Summit
- Episode 42TV's Toughest Quiz - Did You Have the Krypton Factor?
- Episode 43When Anglia News Split into Two Regions
- Episode 44The Football Homecoming
- Episode 45Concorde's Triumphant Return to Bristol
- Episode 46Cornwall's Eden Project Opens
- Episode 47History-Making Election for Wales' National Assembly
- Episode 48The TV Village Experiment that Predicted Changing Viewing Habits
- Episode 49A 1990s Soap and a Game Show Filmed in Jersey
- Episode 50How Norwich Became One of the World's Daytime TV Capitals